So I joined this site in 2005 after seeing a friend and coworker on here. At the time I was working as a contractor overseas. It was a very tough job and I spent time here to meet friends and laugh and de-stress! Some of those first friends I have always stayed in contact with in RL, and others only through here, but I have enjoyed my conversations with you all.

When I left that job, I swore I would never come back to this country! Three years here and I thought I'd had all I needed to find here. But here I am. Back, and living in similar digs, and just a few miles from where I slept back then. It's crazy busy, but I work for much better, happier people now. I'm back in uniform and I love it!

I may not update as much as I did before, but I do want to log some of my adventures, so stay tuned, I'll share what I can.

CAA, I think, is making those funky two-tone grips for the .308 AR's (you have to buy two of them and swap the 'straps around or just buy one in monotone). Magpul is supposed to be making a MIAD grip for the AR-10's, too, but they're so far behind on production of magazines that many of their other accessory shipments are starting to suffer.

If they could have waited one day it would have been great! I gave them 3/4 of my paycheck and got it back. We just have to eat really cheaply because I have other bills due. I fell behind after the engine blew on my car and I have been having a rough time getting caught up again. Someday!!

You should have seen how pissed I was that first the guy would say he's never seen me there, and then to say he didn't know me! I go there all the time, I spend a lot of money there. Not to mention the fact that when the very popular band needed a place in this town to play I hooked them up with the then bar manager and made the place even more money. It's packed on nights when they play there.I was so mad you could see fire in my eyes!!

Ignorance is what has happened to the 2nd amendment. The sad thing is, it's on both sides. Those of us who benefit from it seldom know all the machinations and underhanded work going on in the government to limit our rights, so we don't stand up and band together to fight the death of a thousand papercuts which we're slowly undergoing. Those who commit said transgressions against the Constitution seldom understand the reason for the rights in the first place and really fear that which they don't understand. Ben Franklin's saying is thrown around a lot, but it still rings true. Those who abandon their freedoms for a false sense of security deserve neither freedom nor security. If we go the route of the Brits, god help us.

Indeed. I look forward to my major's board with dread. Just one more step to separate me from where the rubber meets the road. Too bad it's not like the old days where we (active duty guys) could simply sit at a rank and do the job. Honestly, I'd retire as a captain and not feel bad at all, if it allowed me to do all the cool stuff I want to do. Then again, to be one of the anointed few who get to take a battalion some day... Yeah, that'd be pretty sweet. Not sure if it would justify all the staff time in between, but it'd be sweet nonetheless.

But for now, I'll just concentrate on getting out of the captains course and taking a company.

If it's the Taurus PT100, then the slides are not interchangeable with the Beretta. I wouldn't recommend attempting it. The only reason I tried it with mine was because I learned about how the frames were manufactured.